Trapped in Jail

Looks like County is having building issues:

• A man who came to visit his son was accidentally trapped inside an empty maximum security visiting area of Cook County Jail for about 30 hours over the weekend, authorities said on Tuesday.
  
  He was rescued when he broke a sprinkler head, alerting Chicago Fire Department firefighters who found him about 1 a.m. Monday, said Cara Smith, the jail's executive director.
  
  “We’re tremendously sorry for what this man went through,’’ Smith said.

We're not. We're amused and concerned at the same time. How did he get trapped?

• “He was told to proceed ahead and stay to the right to go to the visitor area,’’ Smith said. “He encountered a door that was propped open and he went in and the door shut behind him.’’
  
  He was locked in the room, where people visit the “highest classification,’’ super-maximum security prisoners for 31 hours.

First up, isn't there some sort of sign-in / sign-out log at the jail? We would think that a jail is the kind of place where you try to keep track of how many people go in...and go out, during the course of a day. A simple count would have revealed the ingress exceeded the egress by one. That's a problem.

Second, who allows contractors to prop doors open in a fucking jail? Oh yeah.....Tom Dart. Never mind.

On the bright side, he probably served more time in County than most gun offenders seem to. Word through the grapevine is that he's trying to get the 31 hours credited to his son's sentence.